Word: localities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mean marathon. Though she may have once consorted with bank robbers and bombmakers, the soccer mom of three girls was now a gun-control advocate and found time to narrate Christmas pageants, feed the homeless and read to the blind. In this life and on the local stage, where she most recently starred in a one-act drama called Tall Tales, she was known as Sara Jane Olson--her maiden name, she said. But last week, as she was driving her Plymouth minivan to teach English as a second language, FBI agents arrested her on 24-year-old California charges...
...Frenki's Boys like to dress in black without formal insignia but with a preference for cowboy hats, pigtails and painted faces. In Pec, as in the rest of Kosovo, paramilitary units like Frenki's worked in concert with the VJ and the special-police units, as well as local Serbian civilians who joined in the savagery. All lines led straight back to Belgrade, and this time, unlike in Bosnia, there is no wiggle room for Milosevic to pin the blame for atrocities on "uncontrolled elements" and independent paramilitaries. Here's how Western diplomatic and Serbian sources say it worked...
...Serb brutality. "I cannot tell you what it was like to see my father with bullets ripping him from head to toe," said Jusuf Tafili, who saw the corpse of his father 41 hours after he was executed by unknown Serbs. Among the killers, Jusuf believes, were some local Serbs. "I hope the Serbs who did that won't stay here," said Jusuf, "because I know who they are. If I find them, I will kill them...
...local rapture came as no surprise to the Marines after what they had seen as they worked their way north: a land badly in need of some peacekeeping. From a Marine's-eye view, the ruined houses stood mute, their missing roofs giving second-story windows a glazed-eye look. From a helicopter, the swaths of destroyed houses looked like crude blueprints, their remaining walls showing every bedroom, some with beds still inside. "Hopefully, we won't have to do any of the fighting we've trained for," said Lance Corporal James Palubicki, 21, of Crystal Lake, Ill. "We just...
...grab them back. With my grade point average, of course, went my hopes for a successful life. There would be no opportunities for graduate school and no chance at a decent job after college; the only ladder that I would be climbing would be the one at the local A&P--to assist the customer in getting a 24-pack of Pepsi off the top shelf...